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Tonight at 11 pm EDT/GMT-4 on Galactic Travels, Bill Fox will continue the month-long Special Focus on Tomas Weiss and Mathias Grassow. The Featured CD at Midnight will be "Quiet Calling II" on Musical Philosophy Records. Details are at the Special Focus page at:

not that this portal was ever something very serious and handy but they just donīt listen to users at all and even was restricting options without announcing it.

The cherry on the top was yesterday - i got an invitation and opened the site (which i havenīt done now for ages) - then i clicked on the play button on the first track. And what for hell happened? A new site (!!!!) opens just for the bullshit player - this is completly rediclious and stupid.

In a "very good mood" after this i deleted right away any account i had there. Or better i tried (hahahahaha) - first you have to go through several steps (why you want to delete your account?) and if you donīt click one of the pre-option it doesnīt continoue (LOL). So if you click on one option, then there comes an "convincing mode window" how you can solve the problem....here you have to click once more on "Cancel Account" - and then there come another one where you have to click again "Cancel Account" - wooow, seems there are some idiots doing their job (very proper)!

Finally i clicked on the last button......and.............nothing happened (hahahahaha) - only if i pushed it (not joking) in a machine gun effect in one step it worked! Its very likely they have builded something on this last button that you cannot go through it by several clicks!

I really hope Myspace will soon crashing and have to stop business....this bullshit needs to be cleaned up from the market.

"During the last decade, quality ambient music has found in the names of Anthony Paul Kerby and Tomas Weiss, two personalities of great depth who have, discreetly, given to this style a remarkable amount of work at the highest level; the first (APK) hidden behind several pseudonyms for his DataObscura label has been active since 2003, and the second (TW) known primarily from his collaborations with Mathias Grassow.

Over the years both followed two separate paths in respect to form, but extremely close in intentions, searching and finding in their music romantic, contemplative, and introverted dimensions, and seeking for understanding in the nature around them. It was almost necessary that a collaboration between both followed. In Distant Shadows the ways of the two musicians converge at the peak of inspiration and what results is certainly something with the allure of a masterpiece.

The title track introduces us to the cold, gloomy, windswept panorama which we will face throughout the album, and which also is expressed by the wonderful photograph of the cover packaging. The quality of sound achieved is impressive, as well as the blending of the two musicians, so that it is impossible to separate Weiss from Kerby. What especially strikes the listener is the visual depth and textures that outlines in the mind a very concrete scenario of leaden skies, heavy clouds and north winds to which we trust the flow of our consciousness.

"Gathering Memories" develops slowly for eleven minutes passing through several moods: one of those fleeting spirals of tenderness and calmness, worthy of the best Harold Budd, are shown before disappearing in a dense foggy blanket through which we barely glimpse a synth that is icy and solemn.

"Eternal Return", on the contrary, proceeds on a drone, a single immovable tapestry, the tension and drama of which are breathtaking.

One may think that our relationship with a severe and hostile nature reaches a point of balance and peaceful coexistence, at least this is what "Everything Can be said", which dissolves in epic Roachian reverberations, makes us believe.

But, once again, it is a momentary illusion, a stage of exploration, because "Deep Time" clears out every trace of pale emotion. So we are swallowed by the cold, we wander without any sense of location, even the laws of gravity are abolished (do we ascend? do we fall?). Only the distant field recordings of "Figures on a dark background" set us free from this ephemeral state. Though nothing is the same as before. In "A final Vision" we turn to view a different landscape, designed by dark drone, in which only emptiness and despair are shown.

Distant Shadows is a long and complex work, with perfections and virtuosities but also deep abysmal suggestions - the result of the power of vision by two mature and passionate musicians."

there is no offending at all for me - you just expressed your opinion which is perfectly fine

As you know, the euro-dollar exchange rate is something which is not in our control and even i donīt like it too i have to except it. A price of a product in general can be always a "discussion issue", depending on the perspective and also from the point of what people are used to. But a price is not only a value for packaging or the CD itself, but also - speaking for me/us - how worth i see the complete work. I strongly belive that anybody has to judge this "value/worth issue" for any available work on its own and then make a decision if its worth or not.

Was really wanting to listen to this but couldn't get the damn player to work even after downloading additional plug ins. Bet it was a great night though. Any chance of a repeat somewhere more accesible?

Sorry about this Phobos !

As Anthony said the radio-station had a problem to get a stable connection in the room. Anyway, all is recorded and we will offer something of it (for free) as soon as we have all the complete files :-) Since iīm not regulary here please check either el culto or Databloem site !

"El Hadra is founded by Tomas Weiss and it also involves several guest musicians. The first El Hadra release "Ornaments" is made in collab with Mathias Grassow ! The music is based on hypnotic as well as rhythmic elements, and it is intended for all deep states of trance and meditation."